The fool knows after he has suffered.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.